GoM operator adopts new WSO control for produced water

Offshore staff

HOUSTON -- An operator in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) has adopted an alternative overboard water-soluble organics (WSO) treatment to reduce HS&E hazards, equipment corrosion, and scale formation.

Conventional treatments with mineral acid (phosphorous acid or phosphoric acid) to drive WSO into the oil phase failed to achieve the objectives of a major GoM operator’s platform to treat WSOs. The operator tested a newly patented technology from Baker Hughes called TRETOLITE water clarifier.

The study was a success, says Baker Hughes, and the operator is now considering using the new technology at two other GoM platforms.

09/15/2009